We are excited to announce the general availability of Azure SQL Data Warehouse in four additional regions—Germany Central, Germany Northeast, Korea Central, and Korea South. This takes the SQL Data Warehouse worldwide availability to 27 regions, more than any other major cloud provider.

SQL Data Warehouse is your go-to SQL-based fully managed, petabyte-scale cloud solution for data warehousing. SQL Data Warehouse is highly elastic, enabling you to provision in minutes and scale capacity in seconds. You can scale compute and storage independently, allowing you to burst compute for complex analytical workloads or scale down your warehouse for archival scenarios, and pay based off what you're using instead of being locked into predefined cluster configurations. Unlike other cloud data warehouse services, SQL Data Warehouse offers the unique option to pause compute, giving you even more freedom to better manage your cloud costs.

With general availability, SQL Data Warehouse offers an availability SLA of 99.9%, the only public cloud data warehouse service that offers an availability SLA to customers. Geo-Backups support has also been added to enable geo-resiliency of your data, allowing SQL Data Warehouse Geo-Backup to be restored to any region in Azure. With this feature enabled, backups are available even in the case of a region-wide failure, keeping your data safe. Learn more about the capabilities and features on SQL Data Warehouse with general availability.

Get started with SQL Data Warehouse today and experience the speed, scale, elasticity, security, and ease of use of a cloud-based data warehouse for yourself.

Azure SQL Data Warehouse is generally available across the following regions: